Nineteen households reported Saturday’s Brantley Gilbert show at the Ford Amphitheater, and a fifth sat four miles or more out. The Independent’s own forecast had ranked the night low.
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At the Ford Amphitheater, Six Shows and Higher Rent
VENU’s second-quarter filing shows the Ford Amphitheater playing six shows instead of eleven, its revenue down 37 percent, and its ground rent up $1 million a year to a company co-owned by the chief executive.
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Gleneagle Votes September 15 on Recalling Its Entire Board
Every seat on the Gleneagle Civic Association board is on the ballot at a special meeting on September 15, called after homeowners petitioned to force one. The stated grievances are money and communication, and the association’s own financial statements bear out most of what its critics say. How many votes it will take to remove […]
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Woodmoor’s Musty Water and the Renewable-Water Project It Now Plans Alone
Woodmoor says an algal bloom caused musty-tasting water that still met all standards. With its Loop partners now gone, it plans a smaller project alone.
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El Paso County Is Rewriting the Rules the Buc-ee’s Fight Turned On
Three days after the Board of County Commissioners used the current land code to clear a 74,000-square-foot travel center on Monument Hill, the county’s consultants are circulating a 516-page draft that would rebuild that code from the studs.
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El Paso County Eases to Stage I Fire Restrictions
El Paso County dropped from Stage II to Stage I fire restrictions at 1 p.m. on Friday, August 21, after nearly two months at the tighter level. The change brings back charcoal grills, pellet stoves and campfires in permanent grates across the unincorporated county. Open burning, fireworks and explosives stay prohibited at both stages. Sheriff […]
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At the Ford Amphitheater, the Complaints Track the Wind
Three seasons of complaint reports joined to hour-by-hour weather show submissions running nearly six times higher on downwind nights — and no detectable change after roughly $2 million of mitigation.
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The Independent Builds a Sound Forecast for the Ford Amphitheater
A new tool forecasts which upcoming Ford Amphitheater concerts are most likely to be heard in the neighborhoods to the north, from wind direction and the low-frequency content of each act.
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A History of the Monument Police Department
From a marshal who was also the mayor and the fire chief, to a department planning around thirty-seven sworn officers: how Monument built its police force.
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A History of the Monument Fire Department
In December 1957 The Columbine Herald printed a set of instructions for reaching the Monument fire department. Call GR. 5-2454 during business hours. Call GR. 5-2350 after them, and the Simpson family across from the Higby store would turn in the alarm. If neither telephone answered, walk to the north side of the Simpson house, […]